Workers pull and push the engine of a Metrolink commuter train, that in the September 12 head-on collision with a freight train, to clear the crash site on September 14, 2008 in the Los Angeles area community of Mission Hills, California. 24 people were killed in the crash and a 25th died in a hospital. 95 of the 222 passengers were critically or seriously injured. Metrolink is putting the blame on a Metrolink engineer who was killed in the crash for not stopping for a red light so the...Read Full Story

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Robert Sanchez was the conductor on the Metrolink train that crashed into a Union Pacific freight train in Chatsworth, California on Sept. 12, 2008. It was later discovered that text messaging may have distracted Sanchez from his duties before the train crashed, killing 25 people, including him.